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[mark_asphodel]

 Of all the things that irk me about tumblr I think I hate the glib little Communists the most.

Like yeah, the anti-Semites and the 'hatred is okay if you're punching up' people are worse but god damn am I annoyed by the Communists.

PS: some of the punching up people are the anti-Semites which tells me what I need to know about the validity of 'punching up.'

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[queenlua]

i have not run across any of the anti-semites on my dash, yet, praise the lord. sounds gross.

but yeaaaaah wrt communism, i think i've seen posts to the tune of "literally all political systems except communism are inherently oppressive and if you support any other political system you are supporting oppression" and i'm like "..."

[hilow]

I haven't seen it either, any of it (but I follow several Jewish people so I do see some like...counterargument stuff), but I'd probably vomit everywhere if I did. :/

[mark_asphodel]

I kind of follow two groups of people: game fandom that spiraled out of FE peeps, and a more, uh, politically active group of peeps I met through the Hamilton fandom, some of whom I followed by mistake. So there are several different cross-currents on my dash, and whether it's people reblogging rebuttals to anti-Semites or nasty little things buried in the middle of alleged social justice posts, it's BAD. Literally six different kinds of bad.

1) Defining Jews as either white people or POC depending on what point the agitator is trying to make. How convenient that European Jews are POC during the Holocaust but their descendants are suddenly white oppressors when it comes to modern feminist infighting.
2) Blaming all Jews because of whatever shit Bibi Netanyahu's been up to this week. Basically the flip side to "any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic," which itself makes me want to scream.
3) A more subtle version of the above in which anti-Semitism is cloaked in "fighting white oppression" or "combating Islamophobia." Distinctly modern SJ.
4) Minimizing anti-Jewish terrorism, particularly evident in the way the Hyper Cacher attacks got covered. Made me want to puke.
5) Black Jesus Was The Real Jesus and other distinctly Afrocentric attacks on Jewishness.
6) Old-school bullshit like the Bilderberg Group and lizard people conspiracy theories, obviously not unique to tumblr.

Blech.

[hilow]

All of this made me scream internally.

How do you not unfollow everyone.

[mark_asphodel]

(Hardly fair to unfollow people for their rebuttals. Besides some of the rebuttals are righteously entertaining.)

If I unfollowed everyone on tumblr who'd ever offended me over an ill-considered reblog (political, not fandom) my dash would be all Breaking Bad fanart. There are a couple of nice sweet people in FE fandom, one US and one Canadian, who've reblogged some very SJ posts that were disturbing as hell, ranging from Ferguson-era calls to burn down businesses "that deserved it" to some anti gay-marriage shit from the "Stay Woke" crowd. Do I think they personally feel that way? Hell no. But clearly not everyone reads or absorbs things in the heat of the moment, when they're reblogging some call to action. Same goes for a pro-Palestinian or anti-Islamophobia post where I scroll down and say to myself "what the shit is this?"

The shitty OPs and thread hijackers are shitty, of course, but I think the rebloggers mostly mean well and just didn't... process.

[hilow]

True. I usually enjoy reading rebuttals. I guess I'm okay with it so long as people tag it. When shit ain't ever tagged that's usually when I unfollow people. (Well--pedophilia is an instant unfollow from me, but generally speaking I'm calmer than that. With most things I'm okay with it so long as I can block stuff when I get tired of seeing it. It's not just those kinds of things, either. I guess I just have a low tolerance since I have blacklist available to me. I had to block Undertale before I ran screaming into the abyss. And lately I have blocked markiplier and game grumps because I'm SO sick of seeing the fangirling. Like the people who do it are nice but goddamn if it doesn't creep me out. It's not even stressful it's just. Me being me. :P)

I agree, though, that most people just aren't thinking when they reblog that stuff. Or they see the general thing and think it's not saying what it is saying...? Something like that.

[mark_asphodel]

but yeaaaaah wrt communism, i think i've seen posts to the tune of "literally all political systems except communism are inherently oppressive and if you support any other political system you are supporting oppression" and i'm like "..."

"Laziness is ableist and capitalist."-- Uh, pretty sure early Mediterranean civilizations that cannot be pigeonholed as Capitalist or Communist had that laziness concept defined.

"Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer as capitalist and problematic"-- WTF do you expect from a department store mascot? Don't care if it was a joke post 'cause it got stupid real fast.

"If you take the Marxist references out people totally agree with Communism and even think some of it came from the Bible!"-- and some people think random lines of Hamlet came from the KJV Bible. And Jesus was kind of a communist. So what?

[bookofholsety]

there's always something that's amused me greatly about how such strong anti-capitalist fervour has arisen on a website that currently sells blog skins for $50. sure, this crowd obviously aren't the type to actually buy these paid themes, but still, the contrast is beautiful

i don't think i've ever encountered the antisemitism myself, but i've heard plenty about it and how it manifests out of a sort of misguided "fight the power" type attitude. if only these fuckers knew

[mark_asphodel]

i don't think i've ever encountered the antisemitism myself, but i've heard plenty about it and how it manifests out of a sort of misguided "fight the power" type attitude

That's the most tumblry kind of anti-Semitism on tumblr but I've seen the more traditional sort on there too.